Over The Top - Open Class - 6 to 5
Music Files Below (left click to listen, right click to download) Over The Top An homage to the absurd; a celebration of the outrageous; a tribute to the tackiness that dwells within us. Ditch the stuffy suit and tie and leave your sensibilities at the door. It's time to go Over the Top. The show begins with a traditional arrangement of Bach's minuet in G. A musical and tasteful performance by the tenors and bass drums (utilizing puffy mallets) is interrupted by a squalid, raucous group of snare drummers. Dressed in bright clothes, the snare drummers proceed to play an aggressive solo, fraught with various back-sticking patterns and other fancy tricks to crash the party. Upon completing their solo, Bach rolls in his grave as the minuet in G is turned on its head with a full ensemble moment full of electronics and aggressive playing from all members of the ensemble. The next segment features the tenors and marimbas in a display of "one-up man ship". Utilizing a hip-hop style arran